And then came the Great Depression. Advertising fell off, the newspaper printed fewer pages and there was less town news. Instead, there were more helpful articles, such as “How To Feed Four on ...

Economists say that, so far, the United States has not seen the level of deprivation that marked the 1930s. Robert E. Miller, 87; Queen Esther Woodard, 96; and Lillie Deloatch, 88, lived through ...

Today, learning how to cook on a budget is becoming important to more families. In the 1930s, making do was a kitchen art, honed by necessity. Sour grass soup, anyone?

Soon, the Great Depression made its. way to California and to Glendale. In March 1933, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the. ... in a hurry to get back to the newspaper office in Glendale.

The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis As a historian who works on the 19th century, I have been reading my newspaper with a considerable sense of dread. While ...

Bruce Ramsey is the author of "Seattle in the Great Depression" (WSU Press, 2025) and "The Panic of 1893" (Caxton Press, 2018). From 2000 to 2013, he was a member of The Times editorial board ...

In The New Yorker in 2007, author John Updike recalled the quiet, unchanging towns, safe schools, and great movies of the Depression. Many of NEWSWEEK's interviews differ in detail but nonetheless ...

The Great Depression was a worldwide economic slump that occurred in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929 and ended in the late 1930s or early 1940s, depending on the country.

The Great Depression was mostly a downcast, gray period – yet for Spokane’s art scene, it was a glorious, yet brief, Golden Age. From 1938 to 1942, a collection of young, talented, energetic ...

In November 1930, 43,280 men found shelter at the Municipal Lodging House. In November 1931, the figure was 111,223. That included 1,777 white-collar workers, including doctors and lawyers.

We have a certain fascination for the cautious tales of the Great Depression. We hear it all the time. “The worst economic disaster since the Great Depression … worst unemployment since the ...